As Abbas readies to make UN speech, public security minister holds evaluation meeting in Old City with police chief; police on high alert, brace for possibility of violent clashes; roughly 22,000 officers mobilized.

Dr. Raphael Walden could not resist showing his NGO’s political agenda with his claim that our government is abdicating “Jewish values” and his description of the Israeli occupation as “the mother of all sins.”

THE MAYANS, whose own civilization came to an ignominious end long ago at the hands of a decidedly noncosmic phenomenon – they were massacred by the plundering Spaniards – would have chuckled to see the tens of thousands of curious tourists who descended on Chichen Itza and the Kukulkan Pyramid.